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aiveend22693226
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February 27, 2019
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How to stop the colour changing when exporting a Illustrator to a JPEG

  • February 27, 2019
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Please can someone help...

When I export an illustrator file to a JPEG the colour and tones of the content change.  Does anyone know how to stop this from happening?

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      Monika Gause
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      Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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      February 27, 2019

      Which version?

      How do you export the image?

      Which document color mode is the image?

      In which way do the colors change?

      Is your color management set up correctly?

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      aiveend22693226Author
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      February 27, 2019

      Hi

      - Illustrator 2019

      - File - Exprot - Export as - JPEG

      - RGB

      - The colours become more yellowy, it's like a sepia edit has been added.  It also looses the subtle definition in the line.

      - I have no idea if it's set up correctly - please can you advise?

        sharp_hands16B8
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        sharp_hands16B8Community Expert
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        February 27, 2019

        Hi Aiveen,

        Sorry to hear about this. Could you please confirm when you create the file in Illustrator what is the document color mode?

        And when you export it to JPEG make sure you are selecting the same settings.

        Regards,

        Srishti


        This usually happens when you're RGB export is something other than sRGB which is the web standard. So for example if your RGB settings export to Adobe RGB or Pro Photo RGB, then when you open it in a W3 standard compliant browser display (Chrome, or even apps like Powerpoint) will shift the color from the original.

        This is based on the idea that you are working in RGB from Illustrator in the first place. If you are working in CMYK and then exporting to JPG it is doing an RGB conversion from CMYK which can cause another level of conversion issue.

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